The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-12-07

6atton and Robert p. Porter appears
this morning. Itisthe only one.cent morn
ing paper issued in this city, and for the
reason that it IS Republican many persons
think Ii will not pay. have an idea that
the fact that II is Republican is more fay-
oIable TO Its success than the other fact
that II is cheap. Penny morning papers
here have not been q success, for the reason
that advertisers generally do not care to
display themselves in cheap journals, be-
cause they think they are read by the poor
only, or in morning papers because they
are bought BY the multitude on its way 70
shops and offices and are seldom taken
home. The Press, as the new paper is
called, comes into the journalistic field as
penny advocate Of American industries,
and appeals 10 the busire ss men aud man
ufacturers at one cents copy, just as the
Herald. which circulstes very largely
among business men, advances its price l
am compelled TO regard the two Incl.
dents as illustrative of bad judgment
somewhere. Possibly 2 penny journal OF
serious character may circulate largely,
bat the editors have very grave problem
to solve in advocating the protection OF
manufacturers without offending their
employees most delicate piece of work
20 undertake. 1t can be done, bat it is
one man IN q million who succeeds IN do
ing il.
The penny evening papers seem to pros
per, and they are certainly lively. Their
effect on the blanket sheets like the Post
and Commercial Advertiser can hardly
fail to DE disastrous TO the latter in the
end. ! fancy L can see repeated in the
blsnket.sheet evening papers the same old
story Of the destruction of the blanket
sheet morning journals of q generation
ago, when the Herald and Tribune and
TIN es bounced into existence as cheap
and lively newspapers.
/ Involuntary INDUCED in a bit Of
romancing when l announced last week
that the ubiquitous Henry +. keenan,,
author OF 'The Money Makers" was max
ing The Graphic luminous with his lurid
editorials. BE had left il when wrote,
but did not know 1t. The circumstances
are so CHARACTERISTIC Of the young man that
/ think they ought to be told for the en-
Hvenment OF the hundreds who have been
associated with him on The score OF papers
be has been briefly connected with in the
last fifteen years. go
Colonel Burr, the editor OF the Graphic,
had made, the day after the election,
cartoon showing the newspaper editors
throwing mud at each other, and asked
keenan, TO write s pleasant paragraph
about il, somewhat in the plRintive sly
OF DR.. Watts little hymn suggesting to
lite children that they should never let
their angry passions rise, aud that their
little hands were never made to tear and
gouge each others eyes and things out
with. These are not the words OF the
most read OF English poets, but are about
as close 20 The original Is was Ks9nan's
editorial 10 the pheasant paragraph"
which Burr had suggested. He was mild
in the beginning, when he alluded TO the
Post as "a malicious sneak" and to the
editor OF the Tribune as one not to be
trusted on oath; but when he bad
extended his remarks to the
editors and proprietors Of the
World, Times, Sun 6nd Herald, not 10 men,
ton half score Of out of town editors,
whom he had previously managed, or
thoUght be had, the language OF the Bill
lpgsgate fshwivts was tame in comparison.
He sent this extraordinary screed to the
printer page by page, as he finished II, sud
il was in the form before Burr though 70
ask for proof. Before getting il be asked
keenan, If the article was mild and
amusing. at is just as il you had written
it yourself" was the reply. Just then the
proof came Great gunsl" exclaimed
Burr, on glancing at it. stop the forms!
Boy, find when the hext train starts for
san reDC1ScO. keenan,, must leave the
city if this gets out of the office" Happi-
ly for Burr, the article did not get out, but
keenan, did. Burr now reads the article
at home to light ND his fat with laughter,
while keenan, goes about the Hof.
man House cafe, telling that the world
does not understand his exalted soul.
3
The boy Holman is new illustration OF
Pope's couplet:
''sure genius IS to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
There IS no amount of training which
can, by any possibility, attain the perfec
ton in playing which this child has reach
ed, intuitively, as it were. Not all the arts
of humbuggery could enable him to listen
once to ten bars of an improvised theme
and then play that theme with exquisite
variations without the slightest hesitation
"She," as done at Niblo's, is pronounced
success. Mckee Rankin makes mining
camp Macbeth" with "Pinafore" music
cannot play Stephsnie in Forget Ne
Not" neither can Rose CoghlaH. ThC
break down of Gerster has broken poo
Mr.. Copleston's heart, and to-day he fec
the country. VIZ. +. G.. SHAERs.